Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-26
GUARD AGAINST CHOLERA.
What Should be Done-valuable Su.
gestions by DR.. Tyrrell.

gestions by DR.. Tyrrell.
The reports coming to us that cholera is
in Guaymas, just across our border, in the
State of Sonora, Mexico, has occasioned no
little alarm, and the question that suggests
itself upon every hand is, How shall we
guard against ii?
DIR. G. G.. Tyrrell, Secretary of the State
Board of Health, in speaking of the proba-
bility OF the cholera getting across the Mex
lean border into California, said to a re-,
porter of the RECORD UNION last evening.
that it would in ell probability do so. The
State Board of Health would do all in its
power to keep If out, but it wa doubtful
whether this could be done. I'VE must,n
said the doctor get ready for its reception,
for it will be impossible to put our houses
in readiness for it, once it gets a foot-hold
in this State. Every city and town in CAL
ifornia should at once
BE THOROUGHLY ~CLEANsED,
For in perfect cleanliness alone is there
any safety. We cannot guard against
cholera as easily as we can against small
pox, for against the latter disease we have
a safeguard in vaccination, if people will
only avail themselves of it, while against
cholera there is absolutely nothing, except
cleanliness. This disease develops more
rapidly than smallpox, and the innocent
people in one portion of a town die off like
sheep, because those in another portion OF
the village are filthy. In case of cholera
there must be an isolation of the dead
bodies, and a most thorough disinfection.n
There is more danger" said the doctor,
of its entering our seaports than there is
IN its coming over u border by rail, for
we nave hpffpr nn~nnrtnnitioc of tDrpip- -
back on land than we nave on the water.
Sacramento" he added, sis perhaps no
worse than her sister cities and towns, but
she is now in a filthy condition and one
that should at once enlist the attention of
the city officials. If they neglect their
duty in this direction and the cholera
reaches here, as it most likely will, its raw
ages win be beyond the Imagination of our
people, and the fatality something that
will make the
SURVIVORS TO CONTEMPLATE.
There is no safeguard except in absolute
cleanliness. This will cost something, il
is true. but will it not be money well ex-
pended? The city is dirty, filthy, and GER
tain portions-notably the Chinese quar-
ters-are reeking with filth. It is a year or
more since the town was cleaned up. The
alleys are full of garbage and other decay
ing mater mat should be taken out and
burned, all cesspools should be thoroughly
examined, many of them emptied, cellars
should be fumigated and whitewashed
from their tops to the bottom; easements
should be ventilated, bad sewage corrected,
and as for the Chinese quarters, they
ought to be thoroughly disinfected,
for they are, and always have been, not
only. nauseating, filthy and disease-breed-
ing. but an eye sore and a disgrace to our
city. 1t will pay to district the city and
make a house inspection. What is true of
Sacramento is true of every town upon the
coast, and the authorities everywhere
should see to it hat they are made as clean
as possible at the earliest moment, for in
cleanliness and cleanliness alone lies our
only safety. Cholera can enter the State
by rail at Yuma and Nogales, and by ves-
sells at San Pedro and San Francisco